Anker’s New Desktop Docking Station Has A Removable Usb-c Hub You Can Take With You

You tin region nan dock’s smaller hub utilizing an eject fastener connected top. | Image: Anker

Anker has released a caller docking position that eliminates the  problem of having to take betwixt portability and a plethora of ports. The 13-in-1 Anker Nano Docking Station includes various USB and video ports truthful you tin quickly link a laptop to aggregate monitors, but its astir useful characteristic is simply a small, portable USB-C hub that ejects from nan beforehand of nan dock to grow your laptop’s connectivity while you’re distant from your desk.

The Anker Nano Docking Station is available done nan company’s website for $149.99 aliases astatine Amazon, wherever it’s presently discounted to $119.99 for Prime members. It’s a overmuch cheaper replacement to nan $399.99 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 dock Anker released earlier this year, but it does travel pinch immoderate capacity limitations.

The caller dock connects to your laptop complete USB-C, but that larboard needs to support some DP Alt Mode and Power Delivery to entree each of its functionality and usage it arsenic a powerfulness source. The dock supports a solution of 4K / 60Hz erstwhile connecting a laptop to a azygous monitor, but nan solution drops to conscionable 1920×1080 / 60Hz erstwhile connecting to 3 displays utilizing nan dock’s 2 HDMI ports and azygous DisplayPort connector. And while Windows users tin show thing different connected each 4 screens (including nan laptop’s), for Mac users nan dock tin only reflector what’s connected their laptop.

The docking position besides features a 10Gbps USB-C port, a 5Gbps USB-C and USB-A port, 2 slower 480Mbps USB-A ports, a 1Gbps ethernet port, a headphone jack, and SD and microSD representation paper slots. The removable  hub, which is simply a spot smaller than a in installments card, tin beryllium ejected pinch a fastener property moreover erstwhile nan dock is connected to a laptop. It takes nan dock’s 5Gbps USB-C and USB-A ports pinch it, on pinch nan representation paper slots, and includes its ain dedicated HDMI port, a USB-C larboard for connecting a powerfulness source, and a USB-C jack for attaching nan hub straight to a laptop without a cable.